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The
29t o Mey
is the 149t day o the year (150t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 216 days ti come.
Events
- 1328
- Coronation o
Philip VI o Fraunce
.
- 1660
-
Charles II, Keeng o Scots
is restored as King o
Scotland
,
Ingland
an
Ireland
.
- 1717
- The Viceryalty o New Granada is creatit as a
Spaingie
colony coverin
Colombie
,
Ecuador
an
Venezuela
.
- 1724
-
Pape Benedict XIII
is electit.
- 1790
-
Rhode Island
becomes the 13t state o the
Unitit States
.
- 1825
-
Charles X o Fraunce
crouns hisself King.
- 1848
-
Wisconsin
becomes the 30t state o the
Unitit States
.
- 1914
- Ocean liner "RMS Empress o Ireland" sinks in the
Gulf o Saunt Lawrence
, killin 1,024 fowk.
- 1918
- The Banner o
Finland
is introduced.
- 1943
-
Warld War II
:
RAF
bombin o
Wuppertal
,
Germany
.
- 1953
-
Edmund Hillary
an
Tenzing Norgay
climb
Munt Everest
.
- 1954
- The first
Bilderberg Group
meetin taks place.
- 1972
- Three
Japanese
gunmen open fire at
Tel-Aviv
Airport in
Israel
, killin 26 fowk.
- 1974
-
Yitzhak Rabin
replaces
Golda Meir
as
Prime meenister
o
Israel
.
- 1985
- In
Brussels
, the Heysel Stadium disaster causes the daiths o 39 fitbaa fans afore the European Cup final.
- 1986
- The 12-starn banner o the current
European Union
is raised for the first time.
- 1999
-
Olusegun Obasanjo
becomes
Preses
o
Nigerie
.
- 2005
- A majority o voters in
Fraunce
oppose the proposed
European Union
Constitution in a referendum.
- 2007
-
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
becomes
Preses
o
Nigerie
.
- 2010
-
Lena Meyer-Landrut
wins the
Eurovision Sang Contest
for
Germany
, in
Oslo
,
Norawa
, wi her sang "Satellite".
- 2013
- The first same-sex marriages in
Fraunce
take place.
- 2015
-
Muhammadu Buhari
becomes
Preses
o
Nigerie
.
- 2018
- A gunman kills 3 fowk (incluidin twa female
polis
afficer) in the
Belgian
ceety o
Liege
, afore bein shot bi polis.
Births
- 1439
-
Pape Pius III
(d.
1503
)
- 1568
-
Virginia de' Medici
, Duchess o
Modena
(d.
1615
)
- 1630
-
Charles II, Keeng o Scots
(d.
1685
)
- 1830
-
William Carruthers
, Scots botanist (d.
1922
)
- 1874
-
G. K. Chesterton
, Inglis writer (d.
1936
)
- 1903
-
Bob Hope
, Inglis-American actor, sangster an producer (d.
2003
)
- 1914
-
Tenzing Norgay
, Nepalese mountaineer (d.
1986
)
- 1917
-
John F. Kennedy
, 35t
Preses o the Unitit States
(d.
1963
)
- 1929
-
Peter Higgs
, Breetish pheesicist
- 1940
-
Farooq Leghari
,
Preses
o
Pakistan
(d.
2010
)
- 1955
-
John Hinckley, Jr.
, American creeminal
- 1958
-
Annette Bening
, American actress
- 1959
-
Rupert Everett
, Inglis actor
- 1962
-
Carol Kirkwood
, Scots wather presenter
- 1967
-
Noel Gallagher
, Inglis sangster, sangwriter an guitarist (
Oasis
)
- 1968
-
Torquhil Campbell, 13t Duke o Argyll
- 1970
-
Roberto Di Matteo
, Swiss-Italian fitbawer
- 1975
-
Melanie Brown
, Inglis sangster
- 1977
-
Faisal Islam
, Inglis poleetical an economics jurnalist
- 1979
-
Arne Friedrich
, German fitbawer
- 1981
-
Andrey Arshavin
, Roushie fitbawer
Daiths
- 1425
-
Hongxi Emperor
o
Cheenae
(b.
1378
)
- 1500
-
Bartolomeu Dias
, Portuguese splorer an navigator (b.
1451
)
- 1546
-
David Beaton
, Scots cardinal (b.
1494
)
- 1814
-
Josephine de Beauharnais
, Empress o
Fraunce
(b.
1763
)
- 1892
-
Baha'u'llah
, foonder o the
Baha'i
faith (b.
1817
)
- 1898
-
Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair
, Scots scientist an politeecian (b.
1818
)
- 1979
-
Mary Pickford
, Canadian-American actress (b.
1892
)
- 1982
-
Romy Schneider
, Austrick-born actress (b.
1938
)
- 1994
-
Erich Honecker
, leader o East Germany (b.
1912
)
- 1998
-
Barry Goldwater
, American politeecian (b.
1909
)
- 2010
-
Dennis Hopper
, American actor (b.
1936
)
- 2017
-
Manuel Noriega
, militar leader o Panama (b.
1934
)
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